Murano. I've always wanted to try it. Run and now owned by Angela Hartnett, the first female protégé of Gordon Ramsay. That was enough to pique my interest.
I finally made my way there for lunch one fine day and was quite excited.
Set Lunch £30
Croquettes
Appetisers
Smoked Italian tomato and basil soup, ricotta toast
Salad of wood pigeon, citrus fruit, sherry vinaigrette
Hand-rolled linguine with clams, chilli, garlic & flat lead parsley
Mains
Roasted haunch of venison, braised ossobucco, caramelized celeriac, elderberry sauce
Carnaroli Risotto Milanese, truffle mascarpone
Dessert
Lemon cream and foam, hazelnut dacquoise, mint
Sorbets
Petit Fours
Overall, the food was good, service was good but we felt underwhelmed and nothing stood out, except for the amazing basil flavour from one of the sorbets for me.
It was a forgettable experience for me which I was not expecting but sadly so.
Will I recommend: No
Will I come back: No
Have I had better: Yes
Murano, 22 Queen St, Mayfair W1J 5PR
Oh no! Such a shame that it was underwhelming as it does all look good. I've been wanting to try this as well but I guess it now goes down at the bottom of the list!
ReplyDeleteA shame. Nothing worse than missed expectations. Hard to meet the hype some times. At least it was just underwhelming, and not plain bad...
ReplyDeleteSu-Lin - I think there are other Italian places that will probably leave a deeper impression. =)
ReplyDeleteBrett - That's true, at least it wasn't plain bad.
Interesting! Murano just moved to the bottom of my to do list after having read this review. Does look pretty nice though, at least they know how to present their food...
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